{"id":588211,"date":"2026-04-23T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=808593"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:30:34","slug":"zachxbt-helped-freeze-800k-after-french-streamers-dad-was-kidnapped-in-crypto-ransom-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/zachxbt-helped-freeze-800k-after-french-streamers-dad-was-kidnapped-in-crypto-ransom-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"ZachXBT Helped Freeze $800K After French Streamer\u2019s Dad Was Kidnapped in Crypto Ransom Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/zachxbt-helped-freeze-800k-after-french-streamers-kin-was-kidnapped-in-crypto-ransom-plot-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Crypto investigator ZachXBT has revealed he helped freeze approximately $800,000 in ransom funds after French streamer TeufeurS paid $2 million following the kidnapping of his father in Sarthe, France, in 2023. Key Takeaways: ZachXBT and Binance Security froze $800,000 of a $2 million crypto ransom paid after a 2023 kidnapping in France. The father of [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto investigator ZachXBT has revealed he helped freeze approximately $800,000 in ransom funds after French streamer TeufeurS paid $2 million following the kidnapping of his father in Sarthe, France, in 2023. Key Takeaways: ZachXBT and Binance Security froze $800,000 of a $2 million crypto ransom paid after a 2023 kidnapping in France. The father of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":588212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-588211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}